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Why Can't I by Susan Scrupski

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Key: F#

Why Can’t I

Intro:


F#    B   D#m    C#
F#    B   D#m    C#

Verse:

F#
Why can’t I unfriend you?
A#m
Why can’t I quit you?
B
Fade you to black

Slip your name off the screen
        D#m                 C#
Like it never meant a thing.

F#
Just another rando
       A#m
In the gallery of my past,
        B
A great story,

Already told.
           C#
But I keep hangin’ on
G#m
Still drawing life
                  F#/A#
From the thinnest thread—
     B
That hint of promise

That lingers online.

Chorus:

F#
Why can’t I let go of someone
    C#
Who never held me back?
G#m
Why do I carry silence
       B
Like a code I cannot crack?
    F#
You never asked for any of this,
      C#
But I gave it my all, the same
    G#m
One-sided love,
   B
No one to blame.

F#    B   D#m    C#

Verse:

  F#
I wonder why
                      A#m
You won’t unfriend me first

As if that means
             B
You’re still watching,
Still curious,
Still caring
        C#
In some small way
About me.
G#m
Maybe you’re staying

Just to see if I’ll write
B
One more song
 A#m
About you
         G#m
One more desperate attempt
To conjure a love
    B           C#
You never held.

Chorus:

F#
Why can’t I let go of someone
    C#
Who never held me back?
G#m
Why do I carry silence
       B
Like a code I cannot crack?
    F#
You never asked for any of this,
      C#
But I gave it my all, the same
    G#m
One-sided love,
   B
No one to blame.

Outro:

        F#
But I’m tired of carrying
    C#
The weight of silence.
    G#m   B
Goodbye.

F#    B   D#m    C#
F#    B   D#m    C#

  B
I loved you.
                F#
That was enough.